So, basically, you want to boot the machine with a floppy that gives the machine a static IP/gateway, so that it can find the NFS mount. What about PXE booting? I know that someone here wrote a PXE-kickstart howto. You should be able to search the archives and find something. I don't know of any way to give it a static IP address. Maybe you could put something in the initrd.img/boot.img that would give it a static IP instead of using pump/dhcp. Did you find the code that shows where it is trying to use DHCP? Go to bugzilla.redhat.com to submit an RFE. Forrest > So noone has a clue on this? > > Ive been trying to tinker with the initrd.img but to no > avail, it seems > to kill anaconda when I do that. > > Is there peraps some undocumented option one could put in the append= > section of the syslinux.cfg file that would pass a hard IP and gateway > to the stack on the floppy kernel? > > If not, what is the procedure for submitting an RFE to get this > considered as an option in future resleases of anaconda? > > Many Thanks, > Robert Parker > > Im in an environment where it is very much preferrable to > *not* have a > > DHCP server running anywere on the network, but yet I still > want to be > > able to use a sinlge boot-and-forget floppy to do kickstart installs > > where there is only one remote kickstart config file to maintain. > > That is, if I have a syslinux.cfg on a floppy that looks something > > like this: > > > > label=ks > > kernel=vmlinuz > > ks=nfs:192.168.0.12:/home/kickstart/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img network > > > > How can I provide a the initial IP address and gateway on the floppy > > such that the floppy's kernel does not need to grab settings from a > > DHCP server in order to get the ks.cfg file via NFS? Constantly > > recopying the ks.cfg to the floppy whenever I make a change is, > > frankly, a major pain and Id like to maintain as much as possible > > remotely but current constraints do not permit me to have a DHCP > > server running at all (even one configured to only assign IPs to > > specific MAC adresses). Is there a way of passing IP stack > > configuration in the boot floppy syslinux.cfg or perhaps to > the kernel > > via the initrd image (such that it wouldnt clobber anaconda)? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Robert Parker
